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The 4 most important qualities of any school chair
Choosing the right plastic chairs for school classrooms can be a very important investment. There are 4 qualities to consider. Here is what we recommend keeping in mind when making this investment: 1. Comfort Comfort is an essential aspect in any...
Creating a New Learning Framework- Mirplay School Furniture
Life often goes beyond the framework we create for it. At Mirplay School we listen to the needs of students and teachers when adapting new forms of learning to the spaces in which it takes place. What is the school like in the 21st century?...
Cooperative learning fosters the gregarious feeling
In the 1960s, the brothers David and Roger Johnson, two professors at the University of Minnesota (United States), began to investigate and reflect on whether the individualistic learning approach typical of the time was beneficial for students and they defined...
School, like life, is movment.
Levent Çaglar, the head of ergonomics at the Furniture Industry Research Association (FIRA), is a great advocate for the health benefits of learning to sit dynamically versus the harmful effects on children when forced to adopt static postures for prolonged...
7 proposals to boost emotional intelligence in class
The careers of the future require us to be emotionally developed, skilled and solid. That function, at the moment, cannot be mechanized in any workstation. There are several useful strategies when it comes to promoting the emotional intelligence of students...
7 benefits of learning in contact with nature
It is clear that, throughout the history of mankind, human beings have learned more time in contact with nature than enclosed within 4 walls. The classroom concept is something relatively new ... There are very recent studies that show that the time we...
Emotion enhances learning. Let’s make it happen!
Approaching learning from emotion allows us to get the attention and the joy of learning back, discover new tools, question the teachers and transform the learning process itself. Neither academic nor emotional, what happens between these two learning approaches?...
Mirplay designs two classrooms prototypes to fight the COVID-19 pandemic
The classrooms after the lockdown are finally a reality. In Mirplay we have designed two prototypes to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in schools. With the reopening of schools it is essential to obtain and guarantee a good distribution of space in order to develop the...
Learning to read by means of games
For adults it may seem that reading is an easy task. However, there are many children to whom developing this capacity, for whatever reason, it can be more difficult than to many of their peers. One of the reasons could be demotivation. We all know that a motivated...
5 tips to go back to school!
September begins, temperatures drop and holidays, for students and teachers also come to an end. They arrive leaving behind smiles, tears, fun, boredom, sun, whole days of beach and rainy summer afternoons. The time to return to the routine and start the new school...